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[ adjective ] of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant
Examples "sufficient food" Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Not enough to do away with all doubts , but sufficient to give a fairly accurate picture of the events of the voyage . (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)He was also personally active in ward politics , and by 1924 O_'_Banion had acquired sufficient political might to be able to state : `` I always deliver my borough as per requirements '' . (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Prosperity is a worthy objective ; but if providing higher standards_of_living gets in the way of producing sufficient guns to resist Communist aggression , then material sacrifices and denials will have to be made . (James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)Practically all_of these practical skills are of such a nature that a degree of mastery can be obtained in high_school sufficient to enable the youth to get a job at_once on the basis of the skill . (Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the...)Religious faith can be considered a necessary condition of membership in a congregation , since the decision to join a worshiping group requires some motive force , but faith is not a sufficient condition for joining ; the presence of other members of similar social and economic level is the sufficient condition . Related terms |
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